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Power's Edge Announce: New Features Coming Soon (?)
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 04:02:14 +0000

Announcement from the Moderator to All Leaders:

We've added some new features to the Development Zone, which are now
ready to be applied to the main Power's Edge universes.  The first one
enables new actions:  investing units to improve a region by
increasing it's production, adding a new external link, or even adding
a new internal link.  The second one allows you to "reset" your map
and have it redrawn from scratch at the next update.

Because the "Region Improvement" actions can potentially have a big
impact on how we play the game, everyone now has a chance to speak up
(yea or nay); if a lot of players in a particular universe want the
feature left off, it will be so.  But we expect most everyone will be
excited about the new strategic choices that will be possible, so
unless we hear back from you (just reply to this message), the new
features will be added 1 week from today. 

More information about the Region Improvement action will be made
available in the Leader's Guide once the features are added.  As we
see how the features work out in real universes, we may fine-tune the
"prices".

More details follow:

(1) Steven Bass has added some modules which allow regions to be
improved:  you can invest units to increase a region's production, add
external links, and add internal links. The more units you invest, the
more likely it is to get the outcome you want.  Needless to say, this
is going to revolutionize the whole game!  

(2) You can now instruct your cartographers to have your map redrawn
from scratch for the next update.  This is available from the same
login that lets you send diplomatic messages and have your latest news
reset.  (I've been wrestling with the map generation code.  It now
does a better job of remembering previous maps and has settings which
*should* (in the long term) do a better job of keeping regions from
piling up on top of each other (if you have large maps).  But for the
next few turns things may be a bit messy yet.)

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